Advanced Specialist, Product Management

Pearson is a provider of learning content, assessment data, credentialing expertise, and enterprise learning and skills solutions. The Senior Product Manager for zero-to-one discovers enterprise customer problems, validates new product concepts through experiments, and builds the case for products that should scale. The role also oversees integrations, partnerships, business cases, and multiple concurrent product discovery workstreams.

Responsibilities:

• Own discovery: get close to enterprise customers — buyers, administrators, learners, and IT — and to the market, and turn what you find into problems worth betting on
• Frame every bet as a set of testable hypotheses, then define the smallest experience that answers the riskiest question first
• Design and run validation with the design engineer and product engineer: interviews, concept tests, prototypes, and pilots with real clients
• Make kill, pivot, or persevere calls on evidence rather than sentiment — and write the narrative clearly either way
• Navigate the Pearson portfolio: identify which existing Pearson products a concept should build on, and create the internal partnerships to make it real
• Treat integration as a product requirement from day one. Enterprise products live or die by how they fit into client ecosystems, and you'll own that fit alongside the engineers
• Build the business case and tell the story — to clients, to ELS leadership, and to the partner teams whose support each bet needs
• Do whatever the bet needs: write the interview guide, build the model, draft the one-pager, or prototype a concept yourself with AI tools when that's the fastest path to learning

Requirements:

• Senior product management experience with a demonstrated zero-to-one track record: products or major bets you took from concept through validation to launch — including some you killed. We'll want to hear about those too
• Enterprise and B2B fluency: you understand multi-stakeholder adoption where the buyer isn't the user, and you've navigated procurement, security review, and change management
• Strong experimentation instincts: hypothesis design, qualitative and quantitative validation, and honest, evidence-based decision-making
• Excellent communication — crisp writing, compelling narrative, and equal comfort presenting to executives and sketching with engineers
• The ability to run multiple concurrent workstreams through ambiguity without losing the thread on any of them
• Enough technical depth to hold a real conversation about APIs, integrations, and system constraints. You don't need to write the code, but you do need to reason about it
• Knowledge of the enterprise learning ecosystem: the LMS/LXP/HRIS landscape, skills frameworks, credentialing, and how L&D organizations actually buy
• Familiarity with learning and integration standards (LTI, SCORM, xAPI; SSO and SCIM) — enough to be credible with client IT teams
• Formal research training, or deep experience partnering closely with researchers
• Committee, consortium, or industry working-group experience